As one who almost passed up this hallmark film, I want you rather to judge for yourselves. Howard Hughs's THE OUTLAW is acknowledged by experts to be one of the greatest Westerns of all time, and yet many or most viewers & reviewers grade it but mediocre, apparently based on discomfort with the character which once was considered manhood, in all its frailties, delusions, faults ... and strengths. Here is Ken Maynard's best,
i.e., amongst his best, and observant viewers will discern the film in which all participants, from cast to director & crew, are making a 'best effort' from those which are run-of-the-mill. Here also is manhood unprepucectomised yet not barbaric, or rather, with manhood sublime triumphing over male brutishness -- and that in context of a Lady who genuinely is one, not merely a female human. For those who know the difference, this film is recommended, though in a light, rather than a profound vein; one wonders if Ken Maynard ever lifted himself up to his higher capacity or rather the man who has-it-all and content to rest in the laurels of his superiorites, only to awake one day as a dessicated, if corpulant, "nobody". And that is the challenge for all of us, for every man & woman, whether we excell or whether we erroneously suppose the world revolves around our great selves. Judge for yourself.